sad to no longer see HQThis Jump Festa promo pic is funny in a way:
It screams to me "We are the 2020 veteran survivors!"
I still think that with slightly higher starting stocks, Magu-chan and maybe even Dolphin could still be hanging on for an additional couple days. Glad to see Yozakura and Roboco still surviving though
You're being totally incoherent with your point and not even trying to explain with valid arguments, saying that one of the most popular and loved manga/anime series in Japan history that influenced a generation isnt unique because...you dont think it is unique isnt a valid argument, is just a personal opinion, this is like me saying Harry Potter, one of the most successful franchises in history that influenced a entire generation isnt unique because i dont think it is since it has obvious influences from older series, and the reason you're using also dont make sense, we're not talking about a regular popular series like Dr. Stone, Toriko or Black Clover, we're talking abut a phenomenon that still big even after 20 years, how can a series influence a generation, achieve this level of success and recognition around the world and not be unique?
Name 3 things about Naruto that set it apart from a regular battle manga that hadn't been done before and that truly made it "unique."
Again, you're not making sense, just using subjective argument that is nothing more than your personal opinion, you're also basically saying something is only unique because it made something that was never done before, and this isn't really what being unique means, bringing my comment from few days ago:
I think Bleach was a unique series, even Kimetsu no Yaiba was a unique series inside SJ at certain degree despite not bringing anything really new to the genre as a whole. Using "popularity /= quality" as a argument against being unique is just convenient argument, it works in the paper to try claim that the success of a series isn't result of quality, but the reality is that in order of a series, music, book, game and etc to not only become a success but a phenomenon and part of pop culture of not only a country, but around the world in 20 years of existence, you need to be unique, you need to set yourself apart from the rest, have your own style and signature that people will recognize everywhere, pick already existing tropes and put your own spin on it, which will become iconic features in your series and influence people in some years, you don't need to invent the wheel to be unique, just refine the wheel, Naruto did this at the time, you don't become a worldwide phenomenon for 20 years being just like any other series out there, how hard is to understand this? lol
If you equate popularity = unique, then your argument is fundamentally flawed. This isn't even a "convenient argument". It's a factual one.
I'm not equating popularity with uniqueness, i'm saying that as much as we can use the "popularity =| quality" that is a very convenient argument sometimes when people (not really saying is your case) try to downplay a series, the fact is, a series doesn't become worldwide phenomenon and part of Japan's pop culture for 20 years and a influence for a new writers generation with being just like everything else, it's a concept that doesn't make sense, because in order to become something above everything else, you need to be, in some degree, different from everything around you, this for itself is already a sign of uniqueness, maybe you're taking the term too literal like "you have to make something 100% not done before", when the quality of being unique is broader than just this.
Spy x Family is not a Jump manga, it's Jump+. Also, anime adaptations aren't always guaranteed to boost manga sales.
It will probably be the 2nd best selling manga overall, Shingeki no Kyojin will almost sure be done at the time
#2? I'd say of all mangas it's probably top 3 , but #2? Kingdom is competing with One Piece now.
That Yozakura increase! I really wish the backlog walls wouldn't have been a thing this past week since I'm curious if Yozakura would've been in the top 50 otherwise. I'm really hoping this volume can show a noticeable increase in sales.
Taking in count how the both last volumes sold on Oricon before dropping, Spy x Family is in the lead, unless the anime don't really do much i think is safe to say SxF will be the overall 2nd biggest series when the anime comes
Not that it really needs an anime right, like it's currently the 2nd best seller even without one? I think Spy x Family might be one of those series that doesn't get a big boost from an anime, like a reverse-Kimetsu if you will haha.
It’s very possible that SxF isn’t already far off from its peak.
A point about the "Naruto running" it's actually a real thing, Asian Boss channel did years ago two videos with a real "ninja" from Japan, and showed some clips from Naruto and he said the running is very realistic and actually a way that ninjas used to run in order to cause less fatigue: